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August 19, 2019
Soraya Chemaly Will Emcee GameChanger Awards
Soraya Chemaly is a woman who understands that women’s rage doesn’t cloud our thinking; “properly understood, it is an astoundingly clarifying emotion.” I was proud…
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July 30, 2019
What Voters Need to Hear in These Debates
By Danielle Atkinson and Wendy Chun-Hoon We’ve noticed a pattern among debate moderators and reporters — they avoid asking questions on topics where they assume…
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July 15, 2019
Stand Together for Immigrant Families
By Ellen Bravo My mother’s mother arrived at Ellis Island in the early 1900s as an unaccompanied minor, a teenager alone who spoke no English…
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July 15, 2019
Family Values @ Work Denounces Racist ICE Raids
Family Values @ Work denounces the administration’s use of unlawful and racist ICE raids to tear our families and our communities apart, as well as…
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July 10, 2019
U.S. House Takes Action on Federal Employee Paid Leave Act
Statement from Ellen Bravo and Wendy Chun-Hoon, Co-Directors of Family Values @ Work on the U.S. House’s Action on the Federal Employee Paid Leave…
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July 1, 2019
Oregon Passes Inclusive Paid Leave Law
Statement from Ellen Bravo and Wendy Chun-Hoon, Co-Directors, Family Values @ Work on the passage of paid family and medical leave in Oregon “The Family…
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July 1, 2019
Celebrate Laws That Value Workers and Their Families
What happens to workers when they need to recover from a car accident, or when their parent has a heart attack? How can they keep…
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June 21, 2019
Why My Family Needs the FAMILY Act
Paid family & medical leave would be really important for families like mine and that’s why I support the FAMILY Act. Right now only 17%…
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June 16, 2019
Father’s Day: A Time to Celebrate Caregiving
Tom Frisk lives in Bangor, Maine. He’s a dad who needed to care for his own dad as he was dying, and for his wife…
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June 12, 2019
Statement from Family Values @ Work on Nevada’s Win on Paid Time Off
"It's good to see that employees in Nevada who work in firms of 50 or more will be able to take up to five days…
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